From: Zorrosblade........Z <zorrosblade@mailandnews.com>
Subject: New Scientology bridge-bux scheme?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:09:40 -0700
Message-ID: <lg7ofvkaa3qr1tjbtjvef03rg81l5ov7b3@4ax.com>

After reading the Tradenet 'laundry solution' thread on ABS, I was reminded of a recent scientology encounter I had at the Glendale galleria, but failed to mention it because I thought it too mundane for an ARS post. But, the 'whiffle ball' blue water-ball laundry thread made me reconsider because I do have a question regarding that incident which occurred a little over a month ago.

In short; my girl friend and I went to the galleria for some shopping and walked past an independent face/hand lotion kiosk with no intention by us to stop at that kiosk, where, a woman came up to my GF as we walked by blurting; "Would you like to handle any skin problems'!!!????

My GF does have a slight case of acne so when I heard the hawker thrust that button instigator down my GF's ear I wanted to pop her in the face with a smack, but refrained, as I don't believe in violence unless mortal combat demands it. Anyway, we kept walking by after the hawker failed with the skin button attempt, with me thinking it was just a hawker prodding for a sale. I was tired and didn't make the scientology connection until two hours later.

Fast forward two hours:

Before we left for the car my GF went into Robinsons-May looking for a powder room, where, I stayed behind and sat on a bench near the Kiosk's in the main walkways, between the shops. Once sitting, I noticed the same face/hand lotion kiosk nearby and started observing the sales woman's body language/ mannerism's. After doing this for about thirty seconds my intuition sprang forth with a "she's a scientologist" light bulb. I didn't know who she was yet I could sense a TR's effrontery being run on the public to gain 'tone-40 cause' over 'wogs'. I didn't readily buy into my intuition until noticing who she was working with, which verified my good ol R/brain heavy instincts..

The guy she was working with is a scientology actor who had a bit role as a butler in the film; 'Titanic'. He was quite good for the short time he was on screen, with the line in a 1st class cabin after Titanic was struck;; "Now everyone please grab their jackets and coats and get topside as the captain requests. Hurry please, it's quite cold outside and you don't want to catch cold".. He's British. That's all I remember but he's definitely a scientologist from CC. I knew him years ago..

Anyway, back to the bench in the Galleria;

When observing him stocking face/hand lotion while the 'tone-40' hawker looked for new prey to 'key in' for a sale, it was obvious he was strapped for cash by having to work at a kiosk.

I believe he noticed me on the bench and intentionally kept his face away from embarrassment once he did. He made a point to keep his back in my direction once he got a glance. I got up to make a few circles around the kiosk to see what he would do where he swung his back in my direction trying to act non-chelant in the process. I could see his face was red when he tried to hide it. Seems his wallet went down with the Titanic as well, at the behest of a scientology reg...

My question from this x-files prosaic into the galleria twilight ZonE is; does anyone know of a scientology owned hand/face lotion enterprise using kiosk's to sell their wares which might be their latest rich-quick 'fad product' along the historic line of liquid-oxygen; blue-green algae; 'wiffle ball' detergent, etc??

I have a sneaky suspicion this hand/face lotion gimmick is the latest bridge-bux get-rich scheme, like toy airplanes and X-mas trees were years ago.